Technology Internship (Cedar Rapids, IA; Summer 2020)
What You Will Do:
The Transamerica Technology Internship Program consists of rotational opportunities to apply your creativity, passion for development, academic experience, and analytical skills to contribute to our team through exposure to the core elements of our technology platform – Digital, Data and Cloud.
Modernizing our systems to enable a fully end to end Digital experience for our customers is a fundamental theme throughout our technology projects. We are building systems to enable advanced analytics and data-driven business decisions. Usage of Cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure allow tremendous agility and speed to market for implementation of our systems and services.
What You Will Learn:
You will gain real world experience and learn best practices for the design, architecture and support of Digital, Data, and Cloud technologies. You will be working with a team of ambitious and engaged professionals who bring fresh ideas and diverse perspectives to help us continually shake up the status quo and stay on the forefront of reinventing how we meet our customer needs.
What Success Looks Like:
Working collaboratively with other interns, engineers, developers, data analysts, and architects:
- Code, test, implement and document technical solutions to business challenges utilizing web and cloud technologies
- Utilize third-party software development frameworks, open-source libraries, and API's to rapidly develop basic application solutions
- Participate in the design, architecture and support of the systems, services and applications required for the collection, repository, processing, and analysis of structured and unstructured data
- Design robust, maintainable and scalable data driven solutions and data pipeline frameworks to automate the ingestion, processing and delivery of both structured and unstructured batch and real-time streaming data
- Build data APIs and data delivery services to support critical operational processes, analytical models and machine learning applications
- Build and support the operation of cloud and data center infrastructure
Qualifications:
- In pursuit of BS or MS degree in a technical field (Computer Science, Math, Engineering, Business Analytics, etc.)
- Hands-on experience in software development, data engineering, analytics, machine learning, and technology infrastructure (Prior Internships, Projects, Coursework, etc.)
- Understanding of web technologies (HTML, Angular, Javascript, CSS)
- Exposure to Cloud computing (Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Computing Platform)
- Students must be actively pursuing a degree at a college or university and must not graduate prior to completion of the internship.
Our Culture:
At Transamerica we promote a Future Fit mindset. What is a Future Fit mindset?
- Acting as One fosters an environment of positive collaboration
- Accountability allows us to own the problem as well as the solution
- Agility inspires new ideas, innovation and challenges the status quo
- Customer Centricity encourages an above and beyond approach to our customer
Working Environment:
- Office environment
- Due to the nature of the role, work outside of normal business hours may be required as needed